“Surely I Come Quickly.”

Rev. 22:20.
JESUS only would I follow
Through this vale of death’s dark shadow;
Shadows dark, and paths of sorrow:
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”

Without sun no shadows, could be,
So gazing up, I wait to see
It shine o’erhead, ―then shadows flee!
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”

Shadow of my Lord’s rejection!
Shadow of a curs’d creation!
Shadow of the saints’ inaction!
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”

Ah! darkly now these cross the way,
When glory shines they’ll fade away,
And darkest night be turn’d today:
Saith the Lord, “Surely I come!”

O, Jesus is the glorious way!
My heart doth dance hearing Him say,
Fear not! shadows must flee away;
Still wait―I will surely come!

A. C. C.

Fragments.
THE glory of God is His goodness, His grace― it shines in the face of Jesus Christ. There is continuance in God’s ways of grace. Failure, alas, comes in, we break down and become troubled and exercised; but grace shines in again, and we hold up our heads and are glad, because we see that the failure has been anticipated, and the precious blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin. Thus we can rise from our despondency― our feeblemindedness―thus we can rejoice in the Lord. He it is that justifies us freely, by His own perfect grace. “By Him all that believe are justified from all things.” He has lived and died, and having risen again, is gone into heaven. His presence there is for His people. They are complete in Him. His work is finished. Nothing can be added to it―nothing taken from it―it is God’s perfect work for our salvation.
“The sense that we are nothing, makes us glad to forget ourselves, and then it is that Christ becomes everything to the soul.”